UII UPDATE 121 | Q1 2022
Intelligence Update

Concerns over cloud concentration risk grow

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Uptime Intelligence Staff
7 Jan 2022
4 min read

Control over critical digital infrastructure is increasingly in the hands of a small number of major providers. While a public cloud provides a flexible, stable and distributed IT environment, there are growing concerns around its use.

These concerns center on resiliency, an area almost all public cloud providers can fairly claim to excel. Following some recent high-profile cloud failures, and with regulators asking more questions, there is increasing anxiety that using a big cloud provider can be a single point of failure, not just technically but also from a business-risk perspective.

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